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Title: All Wrapped Up

Author: Heidi Swain

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: 11th September 2025

Rating: 5 Stars

In Wynbridge, the scent of autumn is on the breeze and love is in the air…

 

Clemmie Bennett has been renovating beautiful Rowan Cottage on the outskirts of the small town of Wynbridge, for eighteen months following a very public heartbreak back in her childhood hometown. The popular Instagram influencer, lost her husband, sold their home, and has been cosied up the Fens and living a very private life, but now she feels it’s time for a change.

 

A chance encounter with co-owner of The Cherry Tree Café, the bubbly Lizzie Dixon, pulls her into organizing Wynbridge’s first-ever Autumn Festival, and her once quiet life is soon a distant memory. With the whole town rallying behind the event, she discovers a new sense of purpose.

 

 And when local vet Ash falls hard for Clemmie, she begins to wonder if she’s ready to move even further on from her past and fall in love again…

 

This autumn, cosy up with Heidi and this perfect seasonal romance.

It's always a great time of the year when we get a seasonal book from Heidi Swain, although surprisingly not set at Christmas this time, but Autumn. 

So curl up for an incredibly cosy story set in Wyndbridge as it tried to become the home of Fall, in addition to Christmas. 

Lizzie and Jemma from The Cherry Tree Cafe (the author's first book) feature a lot, as do so many other characters that Swain fans will have seen in her previous books, including Amber at Skylark farm.  As a result just from the setting alone this book felt like coming home. 

But don't worry even if this is your first book, it easily reads as a standalone, as the main characters Clemmie and Ash are brand new, in fact Clemmie has spent well over a year renovating Rowan Cottage, coming to terms with her grief and not really meeting anyone in Wynbridge. 

That changes when Lizzie visits her, discovers one of Clemmie's secrets and then tries to persuade her that she is the best person to set up the new Autumn festival that the town have been hoping to have.  

Clemmie slowly starts to assimilate herself in life in the town, getting to know everyone, and with Ash the local vet as her deputy, we are absorbed into every sort of autumnal activity your heart could ever desire.  

And there may just be a four legged friend that may just play a big part in Clemmie's healing too. 

This is such a gentle romance, and the story surrounding it is warm, sensitive, and just truly heartwarming. 

An utter delight from a wonderful author, but please please please can we go back to Christmas next year, as that's my favourite season for seasonal books! 

Thank you to Simon & Schuster and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.